Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	86.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 09 '18 at 00:48
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 118 2-Core 228 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 585 64% 505 Pts	64-Core 574 36% 574 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.2% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 110 Parallax 101 84% 105 fps	MRender 92.3 Gravity 96.1 Splatting 88.7 75% 92.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 112GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 779 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 79 (B1) Unknown 96 96 20 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 57 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1731485083
Poor: 65% Great: 110%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 35 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 30 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1298986472	86.4% Excellent	Read 510 Write 408 Mixed 414 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 78 4K Mixed 20.2 120% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 34.5 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 22.2 51% 98.9 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 929GB free Firmware: JC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 97 124947392 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5948 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 57 184727014154 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6617 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3985 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 179 (BC) Unknown 100 100 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 50 454426651 (C2) HDA temperature 27 50 60129542171 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 23 124947392 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -41085657135864 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1366903733 (F2) Unknown 100 253 980803600	65.5% Good	Read 118 Write 111 Mixed 102 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.59 132% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 68%
WD WD1500AHFD-00RAR5 150GB 1,105 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 140GB free Firmware: 21.07QR5 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 162 4266 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6052 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 13137 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3458 (C2) HDA temperature 116 81 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	45.5% Average	Read 79.9 Write 78.1 Mixed 74.9 58% 77.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.53 132% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-020.A00LF 4x4GB 947 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.2% Good	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 18.9 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 19.4 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 54%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V GEN3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	252x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	198x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	60x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	31x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	41x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	29x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $522

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16